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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

2015 Top VMware & Virtualization blogs

Every year
Eric Siebert (vsphere-land.com) launch a popularity blog contest, where you can
show your appreciation and preferences about VMware and Virtualization blogs, and there’s a lot of them out there…this year you choose between
more than 400 of them.

But with so
many of them, what the criteria’s should I take into consideration ?

Well, it’s
up to you ; )

I
personally like Eric’s suggestion:

Longevity – Anyone can start a blog but
it requires dedication, time & effort to keep it going. Some bloggers
start a blog only to have it fall to the wayside several months later.
Things always come up in life but the good bloggers keep going regardless
of what is happening in their life.

Length – It’s easy to make a quick
blog post without much content, nothing wrong with this as long as you
have good content in the post that people will enjoy. But some bloggers
post pretty long detailed posts which takes a lot of time and effort to
produce. The tip of the hat goes to these guys that burn the midnight oil
trying to get you some great detailed information.

Frequency – Some bloggers post several
times a week which provides readers with lots of content. This requires a
lot of effort as bloggers have to come up with more content ideas to write
about. Frequency ties into length, some do high frequency/low length, some
do low frequency/high length, some do both. They’re all good and require a
lot of time and effort on the bloggers part.

Quality – It all comes down to whats
in the blog post regardless of how often or how long the blog posts are.
After reading a blog post if you come away with learning something that
you did not previously know and it benefits you in some way then you know
you are reading a quality post. Good quality is usually the result of
original content, its easy to re-hash something previously published
elsewhere, the good bloggers come up with unique content or put their own
unique spin on popular topics.

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I’m an IT specialist with over 15 years of experience, working from IT infrastructure to management products, troubleshooting and project management skills from medium to large environments.
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